It also protects DNA from mutations that could potentially trigger cancer — and strongly inhibits the growth of
tumors in animal studies.
This natural sweetener has also shown great
promise in animal studies for reducing weight gain and body fat when substituted for sugar.
They have been shown to decrease the risk of heart disease
in animal studies by reducing inflammation in the arteries (47).
«Nobody was looking at this region [
in animal studies] despite constant begging for ten years,» she says.
This study shows what has been suspected but until now had been proved
only in animal studies: that signals travel the opposite way as well.
One example is that direct injection of aluminum has been shown to increase markers of oxidative
stress in animal studies.
The addition of flaxseed slowed the onset of type 2 diabetes
in animal studies as well as protecting kidneys from the usual damage as a result of diabetes.
Intermittent
fasting in animal studies delivers essentially all the benefits of calorie restriction but with a normal caloric intake.
Besides being completely delicious and easy to keep on your desk, blueberries have also been linked to improved short - term
memory in animal studies.
High fructose intake has also been linked to weight gain, insulin resistance, and heart disease
risk in animal studies.
In addition, extracts from parsley have been
used in animal studies to help increase the antioxidant capacity of the blood.
While they are still in the early stages of research, they say some of the drugs show very promising
results in animal studies.
Still, over the past couple of years, one of the latest entries to the class of anti-amyloid immunotherapies has lived up to some of the promise first
seen in animal studies of amyloid clearance.
A Japanese study demonstrated that ingredients found in Dandelions inhibited tumor growth
in animal studies on skin cancer.
Such effects have been
observed in animal studies in the lab as well as in frogs in the field for chemicals ranging from the phthalates (used to help perfumes scent linger and make plastics soft) to ubiquitous herbicides like atrazine, linked to malformation in frogs.
Licorice also contains glabridin, a compound
suggested in animal studies to help significantly reduce inflammation within the GI tract.
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New tests based on human biology can predict many adverse reactions that animal tests fail to do, and could, for example, have detected the risk signals produced by Vioxx,
which in animal studies appeared to be safe, and even beneficial to the heart.
Another disadvantage is that including both
sexes in animal studies requires larger numbers of animals and can drive up costs.
Although the researchers have yet to test out this
compound in animal studies, Bhushan says that they hope it will eventually give doctors a means for spotting tumors with the ultrahigh sensitivity of infrared imaging combined with MRI's ability to accurately pinpoint their 3 - dimensional location.
Chronic inflammation has also been shown to contribute to faster cell
aging in animal studies, and some experts believe it also plays a role (along with UV exposure and other environmental effects) in the formation of wrinkles and visible signs of aging.
Some of Moderna's most promising early candidates, although they could tiptoe past the immune system, produced underwhelming amounts of
protein in animal studies.
This anti-neuroinflammatory property of engaging the CB2 receptor on microglia has been tested and repeated multiple
times in animal studies with promising results.
In animal studies conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Centre, curcumin helped improve gut barrier function after a poor diet caused inflammation.
Parsley's volatile oils — particularly myristicin — have been shown to inhibit tumor
formation in animal studies, and particularly, tumor formation in the lungs.
Trans fats have also been named as a cause of insulin resistance, heart diseases, and belly fat
gain in animal studies.